To the entire Filipino community of Saipan and non-Filipino donors — thank you for your humanitarian act and support to an overseas Filipino worker who was in dire need of financial support.
To all the leaders and members of the Overseas Filipino Workers Support Group, officers and members of the Marianas Association of Filipino Architects and Engineers, the Bicol Association’s drop-off point in Dandan and Quartermaster, KWAW 100.3 FM Pinoy Music Power radio program — to all of you who helped in spearheading the donation drive for Geraldine Amor and her two minor kids, thank you for your untiring support.
Thank you for sharing your hard-earned money in spite of the hardship that we are facing on island. We could not have reached the amount of $4,800 in total donations so far to finance Geraldine’s hospitalization and burial expenses back home and her two minor kids’ basic needs without your support.
Indeed, it has been proven that the Filipino “Bayanihan” spirit and camaraderie for a noble cause still exists.
Sir Winston Churchill said and I quote, “We make a living by what we get, we make life by what we give.”
Let us think of what we can do to help our people and government by exercising our social obligations, and don’t wait for what our government can do to us.
The spirit of oneness and cooperation of overseas Filipino workers elsewhere in the world cannot be denied back home. They say that we are the modern day heroes and yet the basic WELFARE services that we need overseas and back home are still crawling into reality. It is all inked out on the drawing pad.
CARLITO J. MARQUEZ
Puerto Rico, Saipan
